Registration Open: Sept 10 Technical Services Workflow Seminar

Register now for the Technical Services Workflow Analysis Seminar to be held September 10, 2008 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. This seminar is co-sponsored by the I-Share Acquisitions/Serials Team and the I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team.

Libraries face unprecedented demands to adapt to the digital environment. New and emerging tasks related to institutional repositories, non-MARC metadata, networked resources and new generations of users place additional pressure on staffs and workflows built to handle print materials. Yet print-related workloads are not diminishing as fast as digital workloads are growing. Meanwhile, the growth of external competitors such as Google increases the need for libraries to focus on user expectations and highlight their own unique attributes.

How can libraries turn these pressures into opportunities? How can librarians adapt workflows, priorities, and organizational structures to provide those services most important to users? How can library leaders create the capacity to pursue critical new initiatives-without increasing staff? Join R2 to hear advice, both strategic and practical, drawn from our experience in workflow analysis and organizational redesign for academic libraries of all sizes and types.

Attendees will come away from the program not only with a context for workflow analysis, but with building blocks for going back to their own libraries and starting to analyze what they are doing, and to assess the value of those activities.

Agenda

9:30-10:00         Registration
10:00-11:00       Why Workflow Redesign (An Environmental Scan)
11:00-11:15       Break
11:15-12:15       Workflow Redesign: Principles and Practices
12:15-1:00         Lunch (provided)
1:00-2:00           Creating Capacity in Collections, Acquisitions, Serials, E-Resources, Cataloging and Preservation
2:00-2:15           Break
2:15-3:00           Conclusion, Discussion and Questions

Please visit: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-serv/mem-train/register/080910techserv/ to register and for directions to the event location.  Registration is open to all CARLI libraries (not just I-Share participants), and will be open until September 2, 2008. Registration is limited to 200 attendees.

As a reminder our registration system does not send an email as confirmation. You will receive a confirmation page after successful registration, please print that for your records.

If you have any questions about this program, contact support@carli.illinois.edu

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